Rolling Prairie News

This summer teens can enter a contest by creating a DVD format "commercial" to promote the Lincoln Public Library District.

Suzy Rousselle and her boyfriend, Jon Gesse, stopped by the Independent Cat Society's annual open house and kitten shower Saturday afternoon.

A lawyer for the Fort Lewis soldier accused of giving his 16-year-old girlfriend a fatal drug overdose says he was sleep-deprived when he told an investigator he gave her a pill.

When it comes to home heating, most people use good old natural gas or some other type of fuel.

A criminal investigator has testified that a Fort Lewis soldier charged with involuntary manslaughter in the drug overdose death of a 16-year-old girl had a history of supplying other soldiers with drugs and purchased the lethal cocktail the girl ingested.

Someone in Michiana could now be one million dollars richer. A winning Powerball ticket was sold at a Rolling Prairie gas station.

A hearing is set to begin Tuesday for a Fort Lewis soldier charged with involuntary manslaughter in the drug overdose death of a 16-year-old girl.

A Powerball ticket worth $1 million from Saturday's drawing was sold at a Family Express in Rolling Prairie.

The swine flu is being used in a potential telephone scam, according to LaPorte County Police.

Lincoln Public Library District and Rolling Prairie Library System partner with Ameren for energy savings Send a link to a friend [ April 29, 2009 ] D ECATUR -- The Lincoln Public Library District and Rolling Prairie Library System are partnering with Ameren Illinois Utilities in Ameren's WATT Solutions program.

The weak economy appears to be testing the metal of recyclers in LaPorte County.

Back in the '80s - before the '87 stock-market crash - a popular saying was "Greed is good." Since the recent '08 crash, that's changed somewhat.

Pilot photo/Carol Anders Kyle Anderson, a sophomore at Bremen High School Marissa Clary, an eighth grader at Lincoln Jr.

It was four years ago yesterday that the American Embassy in Baghdad released the ominous news.

Four years after an Indiana businessman was kidnapped in Iraq, a family friend says the man's wife still holds out hope that someday he might return safely home.

Overall it has been a cold winter across our area, taxing furnaces everywhere. Since early fall Mike Hoffman has been following the utility bills for some local families who have put in new heating systems, to try and save some money.

Brother Edward Vincent Courtney, who was a member of the Congregation of the Holy Cross for more than five decades, died last Monday in the Dujarie House at Notre Dame.

He's described as "probably the most well-known of Holy Cross Brothers in the South Bend area," and for years many motorists along Indiana 933 returned the wave of Brother Edward Vincent Courtney as he greeted traffic from his lawn chair near Holy Cross College.

A 19-year-old Fort Lewis soldier has now been charged in the drug overdose death of a 16-year-old girl at the post's barracks on Feb.

The Hampton Fire Department put all of its tools to work Saturday into battling the house fire that claimed the lives of an unkown number of victims.